Edo Ball

Edo Ball

Author: Andrew Archer

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 9781584237150

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A captivating work of cultural blending unlike anything created prior, Andrew Archer's Edo Ball must be seen to be believed. This series of paintings seamlessly fuses contemporary basketball imagery with Edo-period Japanese art and culture, with captivating results. Often front and centre, an NBA personality is dramatically reimagined and yet recognizable, surrounded by the myriad trappings of the 'floating' world. Brief accompanying texts describe the thematic connections between each painting's converging themes and explore the roles that culture, community, celebrity, and games play in our daily lives.


The Night Itself

The Night Itself

Author: Zoë Marriott

Publisher:

Published: 2014-07

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781406357950

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When Mio steals the family's katana - a priceless ancestral sword - from her parents' attic, she just wants to spice up a fancy-dress costume. But the katana is much more than some dusty antique and her actions unleash a terrible, ancient evil onto the streets of unsuspecting London. Soon Shinobu, a fearless warrior boy, appears to protect Mio - and threatens to steal her heart. With the gods and monsters of Japanese myth stalking her and her friends, Mio realizes that if she cannot keep the sword safe, and learn to control its legendary powers, she will lose not only her own life - but the love of a lifetime.


Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan

Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan

Author: Nam-lin Hur

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1684173353

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The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensōji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the “degenerate Buddhism” of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensōji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo. Hur’s reappraisal of prayer and play and their inherent connectedness provides a cultural critique of conventional scholarship on Tokugawa religion and shows how Edo commoners incorporated cultural politics into their daily lives through the pursuit of prayer and play.


Writing Horror

Writing Horror

Author: Edo Van Belkom

Publisher: Bellingham, Wash. ; North Vancouver : International Self-Counsel Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781551802817

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Takes you through the process of creating horror, including the art of suspending reader disbelief, the creation of atmosphere and believable characters, and the seven steps of plotting.


Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

Author: Janice P. Nimura

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-05-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0393248240

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A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "Nimura paints history in cinematic strokes and brings a forgotten story to vivid, unforgettable life." —Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors—Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda—grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan—a land grown foreign to them—determined to revolutionize women’s education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, Daughters of the Samurai is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment.


Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan

Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan

Author: Christine Guth

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0520379810

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"Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces--both material and immaterial--that supported Japan's rich, diverse, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Exploring the institutions, modes of thought, and reciprocal relationships among people, materials, and tools, she draws particular attention to the role of women in crafts, embodied knowledge, and the special place of lacquer as a medium. By examining the ways and values of making that transcend specific media and practices, Guth illuminates the 'craft culture' of early modern Japan"--


Cry Wolf

Cry Wolf

Author: Edo Van Belkom

Publisher: Tundra Books (NY)

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0887768180

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Four teenaged werewolf siblings face hard choices as one of them is poisoned by bully Jake MacKinnon and all are targeted for exposure by Maria Abruzzo, whose sister is missing and who the pack hopes to rescue.


Manga from the Floating World

Manga from the Floating World

Author: Adam L. Kern

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13:

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Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santô Kyôden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce the experience of encountering the originals, Adam Kern offers a sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. The kibyôshi, Kern argues, became an influential form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something more, perhaps even a national culture, until the shogunal government intervened. Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It serves as an introduction not only to the kibyôshi but also to the genre's readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese comicbook (manga) and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history.


Ẹdo Language Book - Eb'Ẹdo

Ẹdo Language Book - Eb'Ẹdo

Author: Brian Robbo Ogbẹide

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-13

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9783000582172

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This book titled: Edo Language Book - Eb'Ẹdo, is meant for individuals who wish to learn the language Ẹdo in order to have an easy communication with the great state and the lovely people it inhabitat. It's meant for those who lives in and outside the country, Nigeria, and has no access to anything Edo language books, as they would like their offspring to learn the language, to enable them communicate with their relatives whenever they talk or visit Edo / Nigeria.Last but not least, this book equipped with over 428 pages, more than 48,000 words and contains almost every aspect (A-Z) of Edo day to day's spoken words.This includes, the Edo Alphabets, Greetings, Animal names, Numeric figures, parts of the human body, Questions and answers, Simple Sentences, words and meanings from English to Edo' etc.This book may be purchase for educational, business, communication or promotional use, and it will help you and your family learns and understands this interesting language Edo, which is also known as "BENIN".So, get it and be glad you did........


Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko

Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko

Author: Gordon Vanstone

Publisher: Monsoon Books

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 191204983X

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After three years in Japan, Fred Buchanan is broke, unemployed and engaged in a telepathic turf war with a feral cat behind an Okinawa convenience store. Thus begins his metaphysical odyssey back to Tokyo. Along the way, symbols and sages materialize in the form of a two-fingered jazz musician, the faded tattoo on an ex-yakuza lover, an odd brood of internet cafe refugees, the kite flyer of Kabukicho and Yukie, an alluring hostess with strips of delicious thigh and strange power imbued in the etched eye on her fingernail. Charging through Shinjuku’s neon jungle, enveloped in a boozy, nicotine-stained haze, past and present collide as an empty orchestra croons a slow dance of people and place, memory and madness, loss and love. All the while, Fred struggles to be an agent of his destiny and not another ball bearing bouncing through the cosmic pachinko. Rainy Day Ramen and the Cosmic Pachinko is told as a uniquely clever mix of Murakami-esque magical realism and gonzo Japan travelogue.